Eucalyptus umbra

Broad-leaved white mahogany
fibrous bark of Eucalyptus umbra at Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Eucalyptus
Species: E. umbra
Binomial name
Eucalyptus umbra

Eucalyptus umbra, known as the Broad-leaved white mahogany,[1] is a common eucalyptus tree of the high rainfall coastal areas of New South Wales and adjacent areas in south eastern Queensland. The bark is rough, resembling a stringybark, though not as coarse, and in flat strips. Thick, fibrous bark, greyish brown in colour. A small or medium-sized tree, up to 25 metres tall. Sometimes a shrub in the poorer skeletal soils.

This tree occurs in dry sclerophyll forest or woodland, usually on poor shallow dry soils; north from Port Jackson. The type was collected from near Mosman, New South Wales.

References

  1. ↑ "Eucalyptus umbra". PlantNET - NSW Flora Online. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
  • A Field Guide to Eucalypts - Brooker & Kleinig volume 1, ISBN 0-909605-62-9 page 55


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